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"Um.....I think I'll let you deal with this." Warrick said, pulling away from her lips when he realized Grissom was awake and pulling at his restraints.

"Warrick?!" She replied exasperated.

"I mean, I'll sit in here if you want, but......you should really be the one to explain things to him........you are the one who made him." He said back.

She sighed, knowing he was right but mostly because she didn't want to leave the sweet moment they'd just shared. Whatever anger she'd still had towards him for earlier had completely melted away as he stood in opposition to two of his oldest friends because they'd insulted her. She'd relive that moment several times again later in her head, but for now, there was Grissom.

She walked over to the bed and smiled. "Hey..."

"Catherine......why am I tied to a bed......and where am I?"

"First, we're at Warrick's house and secondly......you really don't know why you're tied down?" She asked wanting to find out what he did and didn't remember.

"No! I do NOT know why I'm tied down! The last thing I remember was being drug away from a crime scene by some crazy vampire......." He looked up at her sheepishly.... "Uh, no offense about the crazy vampire thing."

Catherine looked behind her to Warrick, them both silently acknowledging the irony in Grissom's statement......both actually trying to stifle a smile by the humor of it even.

"So that's all you remember...." She asked again.

"YES!!! Would you please tell me what happened and UNTIE ME!!!" He growled, startled, much like Catherine had originally been, at the sound of his voice.

Catherine hesitated, afraid he would have the same reaction he'd had earlier, but hoping for otherwise. Thankfully, it'd been quite a while since he'd been turned and he hadn't fed at all, so at least he was weak enough that he'd HAVE to take it a little calmer.

"Grissom.......when you were taken off by that vampire........"

Warrick sat in the kitchen with Nick. He'd silently excused himself from the room after he had helped Catherine calm Grissom down and then untie him. He figured it'd be easier for Grissom to ask all the questions he had of her if they were alone. Besides, as much as he knew about vampires, he wasn't one and would never be able to help Grissom cope as much as Catherine could. He didn't think they'd be much longer seeing as they had to be starving.

Just then the door opened and Catherine and Grissom walked out, Grissom looking especially pale. Catherine grabbed her keys from the kitchen counter.

"We'll be back.......sometime." She said and quickly kissed Warrick on the lips.

"Call if you need anything or.......just be careful ok, Cath........they're still after you and we need to deal with it."

"I know.....and we'll be fine.......we're vampires......" She smiled, but immediately wished she hadn't said that in front of Grissom. She'd only very recently been able to call herself a vampire without it making her cringe, so she knew how sensitive he was about it.

Once the two of them got into her car, she apologized again.

"Grissom......I really am.......sorry, again......I know it doesn't matter, but........I'm sorry. I'm sorry I did this to you."

Grissom, who really hadn't said too much of anything smiled ever so slightly.

"Catherine.......am I angry at you for doing this? Yes. You sank your fangs into my neck, forced your blood down my throat, and turned me.....into......something.....inhuman. You did it without my actual permission and now I'm sitting in the passenger seat of your car waiting for you to show me how to "hunt." So of course I'm angry with you. But...........if I'd found you, dying.......and knew I could save you.......I wouldn't have thought twice about doing it, even if it meant this for you. What I'm trying to say is........that I understand why you did it and.........you did save my life, so........thank you."

Catherine looked away trying to keep herself from crying. It didn't work.

Grissom said nothing, having said too much and been too emotional already.

Catherine quickly composed herself, however, and started the car, driving towards the seedier areas of town.

She could have taken him to Sam and had dinner ready and waiting, but she knew she needed to show Grissom as soon as possible that he was only interested in killing some people. He, like she had been, was the most upset over the idea that he might hurt people he cared about. At the moment he wasn't happy knowing that'd he be killing anyone, even if they did deserve it and he kept reminding her every other second.

Catherine tried to be patient with him, remembering how much she'd resisted and struggled with guilt the first few times she'd fed. She knew the quickest way to help him was to get it over with. They finally stopped the car on the side of the road and climbed out, walking toward an area both of them had visited many times before during investigations.

"So how exactly does this...." Grissom began, but Catherine silenced him as she saw a woman in her early twenties running towards them yelling for help. She was covered in blood, but didn't seem to be too badly hurt. The smell hit both of their noses long before they could see her face. Catherine turned to see Grissom's eyes glowing and his fangs extended, not surprised at all since she knew hers were as well.

"She smells wonderful doesn't she......" Catherine asked him.

"Yes....." He answered meekly.

"And as much as you want her blood, you don't want to hurt her, do you? She's an innocent.....and you just KNOW it somehow, right? In fact......"

"I want to hunt down the man waiting in the alley who hurt her." Grissom finished her sentence and she smiled.

"We will, but let's take care of her first." She told him, slightly amused that she was taking charge of Grissom and not the other way around. The way it'd been at work for so many years.

Slightly struggling against the smell of her blood, they called her an ambulance to take her to the hospital to assess her. The young woman was scared beyond talking and had freaked out when she'd gotten close enough to see their weird eyes. They obviously wanted to help, so she'd let them and would most likely think she'd imagined what she'd seen.

"Catherine...." Grissom turned to her as soon as they heard the ambulance coming.

"We're leaving. I just wanted to make sure she wouldn't be left alone." She replied and took off for the alleyway where they both disappeared in a matter of seconds.

"She was afraid of us." Grissom whispered as they stalked their prey.

"Yes, well......we tend to have that effect on humans." She said somewhat sadly.

"But we were helping her and she was still afraid of us........I don't think I can handle being something that's.......feared like this."

"She knew though.......she knew we weren't going to hurt her or she would have kept running. She let me put my jacket around her and apply pressure to a cut on her arm......so.....so what if she was afraid, we weren't going to hurt her and we didn't."

"Maybe so......but her blood Catherine."

"I know, Gil. I wanted it too. But the thing I've learned is that I will NOT harm an innocent human. It's like there's something inside me that won't let me. I may want to drink their blood all night long, but I wont' actually attack............I can't, however say the same for those who I've hunted down. Something snaps inside me and.....I.......you're.........just be prepared to scare yourself with how.....inhuman you'll act, ok?"

They both stopped as they saw him dead ahead, walking in the opposite direction, cool as a cucumber.

"Look at him.." Grissom whispered. "Acting as if he didn't repeatedly rape her and then try to stab her to death."

"I know."

"Wait.....how......how did I know what he'd done to her?"

"Beats me......but I always know when I get close enough to someone. This is what I wanted to show you, Gil. That you'll just know. You asked me how I picked my victims. This is how." She stopped talking as they inched closer and their instincts took over.

Grissom was silent as his fangs receded and he attempted to wipe the blood off his face. He looked at Catherine, her mouth and neck covered in blood as well, and tried to deal with the fact that he looked just as frightening, just as feral.

"This is odd. I feel guilty for the taking of a human life, but no guilt whatsoever for killing him personally."

Catherine chuckled, licking the back of her hand clean. "You get used to it."

"I don't want to get used to it Catherine."

"I know Gil. I know."

"I know you do Cath....I'm sorry."

They looked at each other for a moment, both understanding the other more than they ever had when they'd merely been human coworkers. They were much more than that now, bound by blood and the inhuman experience they shared.

"I'm sorry if this comes off badly, but........I'm glad I'm not the only one anymore." Catherine said softly as they drug the body to a dumpster.

"I'm glad I'm not alone either." He laughed. "I'd have to deal with this alone if it weren't for you.......but then again, I wouldn't be a vampire if it weren't for you...so....."

They closed the lid to the dumpster and took off back towards the car but stopped midway as they realized they were being followed.

"What do you sense?" Catherine asked Grissom. "Can you tell?"

Grissom cocked his head to the side in thought. "Two.......two slayers......and.........several other vampires......." He turned to Catherine. "You?"

"That's what I sensed as well........" She began to walk much faster, Grissom not sure why Catherine, steely, tough, vampire Catherine was emitting some serious fear.

"What is it?" He asked as they had the car in the sight.

"This is weird. I'm sensing that they're working together, which is unheard of in both communities."

"Why would they do that?"

"Me......I'm their common factor.....and they won't stop until I'm dead." She barely got out before the two of them turned to see the group of vampires and slayers within twenty feet of them.

REVIEW...please.....I promise that we're actually nearing the end.......although I do actually have one more little idea I'm toying with for Warrick....(and it does not involve him becoming a vampire).....should I end as soon as we take care of these peeps....of have one more little twist.....???